India, Nov. 13 -- In a late-night raid on Tuesday, the police busted a fake call centre operating from a flat in Mulund, whose operators allegedly cheated citizens of the US and Canada. The call centre workers posed as employees of LendingPoint, a finance company, and used E-SIM cards to cheat their targets. Victims were promised quick, unsecured payday loans and made to pay minimal processing charges, then they were left without loans, said a police officer.

Based on a tip-off by senior police inspector Ajay Joshi and police inspector Shivaji Chavan, Mulund police raided a residential flat in Mulund West. "We found that Sagar Gupta, 27, was running the fake call centre, without any permission, to cheat citizens of the US and Canada," sa...